game trailblazer

Chapter 244 A Variety of New Games

Wang Mengyao pointed to the office area facing the stairwell and asked, "Boss, this is the project department, do you want to go and have a look?"

Several months have passed since the last time I came to the creative workshop. Zhang Lexing remembered that four or five projects had already started at that time. He came here this time just to see how the progress was, so he nodded and the three of them walked in together. Project Department.These people in the project department are basically old faces. After all, Zhang Lexing came here several times last year, but the original person in charge Zhan Jun just transferred to Shanghai this year, and he is replaced by an old acquaintance, the original No. [-] person Zhao Yuanhuan.

Seeing Zhang Le walking in, everyone in the project department got up to say hello, and Zhao Yuanhuan hurried up to greet him, saying: "Boss, long time no see, how are you?"

After Zhang Lexing responded with a nod to everyone, he said to Zhao Yuanhuan: "Well, I'm here to see the status of those projects, so let me introduce you."

"It just so happens that I have the latest information on these games on my computer. Boss, please follow me." Zhao Yuanhuan returned to his own computer desk, shook the mouse, then called up the game information, and began to introduce them one by one.

After listening to Zhang Lexing, he found that there are two more games under development than when he came last time, in addition to the adventure action game sequel "Adventure King 2", the racing game "Speed ​​Shuttle", In addition to the suspense decryption game "Mistlock", the combat FPS game "Special War Heroes" and the simulation management game "Game Dream", the mecha combat game "Mecha Storm" and a very special game have also been added. "Hot Dance Party".

"Boss, you have read the storyline of "Adventure King 2" last time, and you haven't revised it since then. The biggest change is the game engine. It was originally planned to use the original old engine, but the recent research on the game engine There has been a major breakthrough, so it has been replaced with the latest Wind Soul engine. Compared with the original Wulin engine, it can more fully exert the performance of the EC6500 series chipset, and the movements of the characters have become smoother..." Zhao Yuanhuan clicked Click the mouse to call up a demonstration program, then point to the screen and say: "Boss, look!"

Zhang Lexing looked in the direction of Zhao Yuanhuan's finger, and the computer screen gradually lit up.A round of silver-white waning moon hangs in the sky, and the huge platform on the top of the mountain is empty. A gust of mountain wind blows, and a short, thick tree next to the platform sways its branches and leaves with the wind, and a black shadow flashes from behind the tree. And go out to the open space of the platform.Under the reflection of the moonlight, the person who came gradually revealed his figure. He was the adventure king.Suddenly, a person sprang out from the bushes next to him, and punched the adventure king like a step forward punch.The adventure king took it easy, moved his left hand to the side, and struck forward with his right fist...

"This is a CG picture generated by real-time calculation after using the Wind Soul engine. Compared with the similar scene in "Adventure King 1", the complexity has been greatly improved, and the realism and fluency of the character's movements have also been greatly improved. "Following the picture played on the screen, Zhao Yuanhuan made an introduction on the side.

After Zhang Lexing watched it, he also felt the same way. If it weren’t for the lack of character modeling and the stiff facial expressions, the whole real-time calculation CG scene is completely like watching a kung fu movie. The wind soul engine is obvious. It is stronger than the original martial arts engine.

"How is it? How far is the development progress of this game?" Zhang Lexing asked.

"Boss, the current completion rate of the game is about 20%, mainly because after the engine is replaced, there are many parts that need to be rewritten in the program, so the progress will be a bit delayed, but according to the current speed, it should be ready by January next year. Finished." Zhao Yuanhuan explained.

The appearance of the racing game "Fast Shuttle" is full of drama. When Lucas was planning to shoot "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" last year, he remembered the conversation with Zhang Lexing, so he specially visited Hong Kong. Back, I discussed with Zhang Lexing about the script of "The Phantom Menace". Zhang Lexing made some suggestions based on his own impression, which inspired Lucas very much.However, Zhang Lexing also gained something. When reading the script, he remembered the scene in the movie from the text description about the pod race, how the lightning-fast speeding cars competed with each other, and the creative workshop The game theme that has never been tried before - racing, so "Speed ​​Shuttle" appeared in his mind against this background.Relying on the friendship between Zhang Lexing and Lucas, he easily obtained the right to adapt the game for all platforms, and the cost was only 50 US dollars.

For the sake of resource sharing, the production team of "Fast Speed ​​Shuttle" did not stay in BJ, but went to Shanghai, where a joint production team was established, and it was developed on PC, PS and N64 game console platforms at the same time. , and each maintained a certain degree of independence, but shared a certain degree of planning, art, etc. As for Sega's Saturn game console, even they themselves planned to give up, and Zhang Lexing was not interested in joining in the fun anymore.According to Zhao Yuanhuan, the development of "Flying Shuttle" is still advancing according to the planned progress, and it is expected to be officially completed around March next year, but Zhang Lexing is not in a hurry, anyway, "Phantom Menace" has not yet finished filming, It was completely in time to catch up with the launch at the same time. I believe that just relying on the golden signboard of "Star Wars" can attract many people's desire to buy, and the gimmick of the launch at the same time is more likely to make some people who have not had the opportunity to watch the movie in advance. try to try.

"Boss, our suspense decryption game "Mist Lock" is currently a highly completed game, and it is basically coming to an end. According to the current progress, it is expected to catch up with the summer vacation." Zhao Yuanhuan clicked on a folder. , started the demonstration program inside, and then said: "Boss, you see, this is already a trial version program that is closer to the final version..."

The planning case of the suspense decryption game "Mist Lock" is a suspenseful mystery novel created by an amateur writer for a while. It has not yet been published to the public. Fayan of Entertainment Co., Ltd. spent a small sum of money to buy out the copyright of the novel, and then transferred to the creative workshop, so there was a project like "Mist Lock".The official plan has been completely different from the original novel. Many deficiencies in the original work have been revised, and the main story line has also been adjusted to become more suspenseful and mysterious.

The battle-type FPS game "Special War Heroes" was inspired by the capture-the-flag mode in the multiplayer battle of "Blood War Shanghai Bund 2". This mode unexpectedly became the most popular online option in Fengyun Game Club, so the creative team sprouted In order to develop a multiplayer FPS game based on this capture-the-flag mode, the "Special War Heroes" project team was established, and the game engine also changed from the Build2D3 used in "Blood Battle on the Bund 1.0". Version 2.0 is upgraded to the latest version [-].

"Boss, look, this is the current development of "Special Forces". We have completed 26 of the estimated 18 battle scenarios. The battle mode is mainly based on small-scale confrontation tasks between two special forces. Lord, including various tasks such as target escort, hostage rescue, and destruction of specific targets. The weapons and equipment used are designed according to the data approved by our chief military adviser Mr. Yang Nanzheng, what Beretta M9 pistol, SVD sniper rifle, FAMASG1 assault Rifles are the mainstream equipment currently used by special forces..."

The data of "Special War Heroes" can be so complete, and I would like to thank Yang Nanzheng for his efforts. Without his help, at least the weapons and equipment of the Chinese special forces would not appear in the game. It's a little worse.

Among the five games originally planned, "Game Dream" is a relatively unique existence. It is actually a game operated by a simulation game company. When Zhang Lexing proposed such an idea, the current main creators were shocked. After all, it always feels a bit weird for a game company to make a game that simulates itself.

"Boss, sometimes we are really envious of you, you always have so many game ideas." Every time when introducing "Game Dream", the introducer must have some emotion, and Zhao Yuanhuan is no exception this time.

In fact, the idea of ​​"Game Dream" cannot be regarded as completely original. After all, Zhang Lexing once played a similar game. It is very attractive to some people, especially players who like business simulation games.It's just that the background of that game was set in the United States in 1982. When Zhang Lexing took it out, he changed it to China in 1994, which was the year when domestic games emerged.Zhang Lexing hopes to let players know more about the game company through this game, so he added a lot of real content into it, such as game engine development, game planning, game release, etc., and made reasonable simplifications, which can not only make Players understand the operation process of the game company, but it seems too cumbersome and loses the gameplay. In order to increase the fun, a "home" for players to freely arrange is added to the game, which can be regarded as the creation of a simulated homeland. First of its kind.

After listening to Zhao Yuanhuan's introduction of the five games, Zhang Lexing saw that he seemed to be planning to close the stall, so he hurriedly asked: "So, how are the development of the other two games going?"

"Well, the development period of "Mecha Storm" and "Hot Dance Party" is still short, and I don't have much to see here. Boss, how about I take you to the development site to have a look." Zhao Yuanhuan moved the screen with the mouse After closing the opened windows one by one, he turned around and asked.

"Alright." Zhang Lexing nodded, "Mecha Storm" and "Hot Dance Party" were not there when I came last time, so I have to watch them anyway.

"Boss, please come this way." Zhao Yuanhuan got up and made a gesture of invitation, and then led the way out, Zhang Lexing also followed.

Zhao Yuanhuan went straight to the stairwell and went upstairs, Zhang Lexing and others followed closely behind.On the fourth floor, Zhao Yuanhuan walked into the workshop, came to a man who was debugging the code, patted his shoulder lightly, and said, "Old Shao, have you finished the demo that I asked you to do last time?"

The man called Lao Shao didn't look back, and while continuing to stare at the data flowing on the screen, he replied: "Don't worry about my work, it was done yesterday. Why, do you need to use it?"

"That's great, then call out the demo now and demonstrate it." Zhao Yuanhuan hurriedly ordered with a look of surprise on his face.

"Oh, wait a moment, the code will be finished in 5 minutes." Lao Shao still didn't look back, and continued to reply calmly.

Zhao Yuanhuan wanted to open his mouth, but Zhang Lexing hurriedly waved his hand to stop him, and said in a low voice: "Not busy, just wait for him."

About 5 minutes later, the data flowing on Lao Shao's screen stopped. He let out a long sigh, then clicked the mouse, opened a file, quickly entered a paragraph of text, and then opened the mail software to transfer the The file was added as an attachment, and then several email addresses were selected from the address book, and clicked to send.

When the reminder that the email was sent successfully appeared, Lao Shao heaved a sigh of relief, stood up and was about to talk to Zhao Yuanhuan, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of Zhang Lexing standing beside him, panicked, and stammered, "Boss, I... I didn't know you were here."

Zhang Lexing smiled and comforted, "It's okay, work is important."

Old Shao smiled awkwardly, Zhao Yuanhuan next to him couldn't help but pat him, and said angrily: "Okay, okay, don't be dazed, let's call out the demo of "Mecha Storm" first."

"Oh, that's right, wait a minute." Lao Shao hurriedly turned around and sat down, held the mouse and clicked repeatedly, and quickly called up a Demo program. A gigantic robot appears...

Zhang Lexing was taken aback, pointed at the robot on the screen and asked, "This is..."

"The GX-9901-DX body, a cutting-edge mobile suit developed by the Earth Federation in order to consolidate its dominance on the earth after the 7th Space War, was later found on the artificial island of the New Earth Federation, Zoda Apta. Carlot Lan snatched it, also known as Gundam DX." Lao Shao, who had already stood up, explained from the side.

"Mobile Suit Gundam?" Zhang Lexing asked incredulously, "Who thought of this?"

Zhao Yuanhuan pointed to Lao Shao, and said with a smile: "Boss, this is Lao Shao's idea. Don't look at him wearing a pair of glasses, but in fact, his programmer body hides the heart of a Gundam enthusiast."

"How did you think of making a Gundam game?" Zhang Lexing asked again.

"Some time ago, the global resource search system was launched. When we were collecting information, we accidentally noticed that the company already owned the relevant copyrights of Gundam, so Lao Shao, a Gundam fan, came up with the idea of ​​making a game. Both the copyright application and the game development application It was approved only recently, and we only have such a demo on hand now. The development of "Mechstorm" is still in the planning stage, and the artist is also making related settings based on the animation of Gundam... "Zhao Yuanhuan explained the reasons for game development.

"Well," Zhang Lexing pondered for a while, and asked, "Then how do you plan to plan this game?"

"The project team of "Mechastorm" is still discussing the specific details, but it is generally planned to follow the "Galaxy Commander" series and intersperse cutscenes describing the plot between each level. This part will invite the animation department of the group to come Collaboration. In addition, the number of mission levels will exceed 20, and the mission types are divided into two types, one is ground warfare, manipulating robot activities on the surface of the planet, including cities, deserts, water and other terrains; the second is space warfare , a 360-degree all-round battle in the zero-gravity space, and various space battleships in the animation will appear..." Zhao Yuanhuan introduced.

The idea is still very ambitious, and Zhang Lexing doesn't know whether this game will be successful, but he can try more games of different types, which will train the development team even more, such as "Mecha Storm" requires the cooperation of multiple departments of the group The game is more valuable for exercise. Anyway, even if it fails, Zhang Lexing can afford it.

(End of this chapter)